AUDIT: r17489 - gnucash/trunk/src/import-export/qif-import - Bug #141003: QIF Import: Allow the British Pound symbol and the dollar symbol to be used interchangeably.
Derek Atkins
warlord at MIT.EDU
Wed Sep 3 14:19:16 EDT 2008
"Charles Day" <cedayiv at gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 5:26 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>
> Charles Day <cedayiv at cvs.gnucash.org> writes:
>
> > Modified:
> > gnucash/trunk/src/import-export/qif-import/qif-file.scm
> > gnucash/trunk/src/import-export/qif-import/qif-objects.scm
> > gnucash/trunk/src/import-export/qif-import/qif-parse.scm
> > Log:
> > Bug #141003: QIF Import: Allow the British Pound symbol and the dollar
> symbol to be used interchangeably.
>
> Why limit it just to the British Pound symbol? Wouldn't it be
> better to allow it to be any currency, or maybe the 'locale
> currency'? Or do we really need to explicitly add a list of
> currency symbols?
>
> The issue only appears to have come up for the British Pound symbol, so I left
> it at that. If someone finds a need to support a third symbol, or support
> multi-byte currency symbols, or support textual designations such as "USD",
> then that's obviously going to require more changes, perhaps even allowing any
> series of non-numeric bytes before and after the actual value. But I don't
> know if that leaves the door too wide open, since "TESTING 123" would be
> considered valid.
>
> Since doing it this way was such a small change, I decided to just get it
> done.
Fair enough. I don't recall if there were other symbols that
people had asked for.
-derek
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